Category: Release Dates

Bharata Kalanjali’s ‘Jharna’ was conceived to provide young dancers a platform to create original choreographic works, moving beyond the margam they perform regularly. The dancers are selected based on the videos they submit, and they perform for an hour each, over two weekends. Madhumanti Banerjee, currently being trained by Indira Kadambi, was chosen for the...

School of Drama in Thrissur held a carnival of pedagogy, theatre and ecology. The man moved through the trees like an evening breeze. He mumbled chants to the leaves. His talking drum crooned melodies to the birds. “Feel free to move around,” he urged the audience who shifted uncomfortably on the newspapers spread on the...

House converted into a cultural hub | Photo Credit: Special arrangement A corner house opposite a park in a serene neighbourhood at Sainikpuri in Hyderabad is now Rangbhoomi by Sneha Arts, a new cultural space for music/dance shows, open mics and theatre performances. Co-founded by artist Sneha Lata Prasad and theatre actor/director Jay Jha, the...

Bombay Gnanam | Photo Credit: PICHUMANI K In the late eighties, when theatre groups in the country were mostly led by men, Bombay Gnanam successfully broke the glass ceiling to lead a drama troupe. . She scripted history by starting the Mahalakshmi Ladies Drama Group (MLDG), an all-women team that redefined Tamil theatre. Its plays,...

Kavita Agarwal and Zafer Mohiuddin in stills from the play | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement Kathputliyan Theatre Group (KTG) will stage, Ek Actor Ki Maut. Directed by theatre actor, director, playwright Zafer Mohiuddin, the play is originally written by Croatian writer, Miro Gavran and adapted to Hindi by Saurabh Srivastava. “It is about two actors, Akshay and...

Veenapani Chawla, a visionary artiste There are many ways to remember a mentor. Keeping the land she nurtured, watered and green maybe one. Not giving up, for even a day, the rigour and detailing you were trained to value in work — another. Also, managing to draw back the people she taught, influenced and inspired....

A scene from the play | Photo Credit: special arrangement Terminal 3, a play to be staged on March 31 and April 5 in Hyderabad is a stark view of the post-pandemic world on stage. Written and directed by Surendra Singh Negi, chief coordinator of the foreign languages programme at the English and Foreign Languages...

British playwright Edward Bond chats with high-school students during a theater workgroup at the Celestins Theater in Lyon. | Photo Credit: Getty Images Edward Bond first attracted attention with The Pope’s Wedding and Saved in the 1960s. A playwright, theatre director, poet and dramatic theorist, Bond, obsessed with the question of responsibility, confronted his audiences...

Alia Bhatt’s Jigra has scored a poor opening weekend as the film has seen a drop in collections on Sunday. After collecting Rs. 11.15 crores in two days, the film has collected in the zone of Rs. 5.75 to 6.00 crores on Sunday, taking three-day opening weekend to Rs. 17.00 crores. It’s curtains down for...

A scene from He-ROSE written by Nimmy Raphel. | Photo Credit: Special Arrangement An international collaboration in culture is always seen as an intellectually high-yielding venture. Blending the best of French and Indian theatre, ENSATT lyon of France and Adishakti Theatre of Auroville, came together to present the play HE-ROSE, premiered recently at Alliance Française,...